Nólsoy
Nólsoy is an island and village in central Faroe Islands, 4km east of the capital Tórshavn in Streymoy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 214 residents
- Description: settlement on Nólsoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Nolsö”, “Nolsö Bygd”, “Nolsoy”, “Nólsoy, Nólsoy”, and “Nólsoyarbygd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nólsoyar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tinganes and Tórshavn.
Tinganes
Quarter
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tinganes is the historic location of the Faroese landsstýri, and is a part of Tórshavn. The name means "parliament jetty" or "parliament point" in Faroese. Tinganes is situated 5 km west of Nólsoy.
Tórshavn
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.
Argir
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning. Argir is situated 5 km west of Nólsoy.
Nólsoy
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.0097° or 62° 0′ 35″ northLongitude
-6.67358° or 6° 40′ 25″ westPopulation
214Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO NLSOpen location code
9CJM285G+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 302104829OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Nólsoy” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Nólsoy”
- Danish: “Nolsø”
- Danish: “Nólsoy bygd”
- Dutch: “Nólsoy”
- Faroese: “Nólsoy, Nólsoy”
- Faroese: “Nólsoy”
- Hungarian: “Nólsoy”
- Irish: “Nólsoy”
- Lithuanian: “Noulsojus”
- Ossetian: “Нольсой”
- Polish: “Nolsoy”
- Polish: “Nólsoy”
- Romanian: “Nólsoy, Nólsoy”
- Romanian: “Nolsoy”
- Romanian: “Nólsoy”
- Swedish: “Nolsoy”
- Swedish: “Nólsoy”
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